NIMH Ep #700 WHY ARE TEACHERS QUITTING? Listen to what these teachers gad to say🤔🤔🤔

NIMH El #700
WHY ARE TEACHERS QUITTING? Listen to what these teachers gad to say🤔🤔🤔

Teachers are calling it quits amid rising school violence, burnout and stagnating salaries

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Most educators leaving the field aren’t retiring or being laid off — they’re quitting.

Nearly half of the public education employees — working in elementary, secondary and postsecondary institutions — who left the profession in March resigned, according to preliminary numbers released in May by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Quits peaked early into the Covid-19 pandemic, before taking a downturn in late 2020. But over the last two years, resignations have ticked back up, worsening the already-serious teacher shortage in the United States as school districts struggle to hire new teachers.

More than half of US educators say they were more likely to retire early because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a 2022 survey conducted by the NEA. That rate was higher for Hispanic or Latino and Black teachers.

Just 20% of public elementary and secondary school teachers are people of color, according to the National Center for Education Statistics data for the 2020-21 school year.

“At the moment, when we need more [teachers of color], we have less of them,” Pringle said. “And our teachers of color, particularly Black teachers… they disproportionately are leaving.”

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